John Delcos enters his third season covering the Mets for The Journal News after eight seasons on the Yankees beat. Prior to coming to New York, John covered the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians.

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Benny Ayala

Not to beat a dead horse, but this was a two-out rally that featured a single up the middle followed by three consecutive walks. I know in our previous discussions about Game 7 against the Cards (to bunt or not to bunt—that was the question) you had indicated that the Mets still would have needed a hit to win the game, and I responded with Game 6 of the ‘86 Series. Well, here was another one last night: A winning rally produced without a game-winning hit.

I’m really, really worried about Delgado. His offensive game is based on bat speed, his is slow, and he’s of an age and body type at which it’s no given it’s going to come back. I keep thinking about how quickly alomar fell off the table…

i want to know the love affair with delgado. wright perked up finally and his slump hasnt been as bad as delgado.
watch the idiot is injured.

BH – keith was saying that he and carlos aare 2 diff. hitters. Keith was an in the park hitter. line drives etc,. singles doubles. so he would not try to overhit the ball. Delgado is a professed long ball hitter so he is always going for it deep. he’s suffering from dave Kingman disease. hit or miss. there’s no in between.

Delgado needs to tune it down and just start hitting.
wright did it .. now is just may be back in the groove.
SIngles and doubles win the game. yeah a well placed homerun too. but its better when all players know when to hit it in field.

Not the case last night but it drives me crazy when Delgado doesn’t bunt when the third baseman is almost at second base. I went to the Milledge high five game last year and earlier in the game Reyes was on third and he had such a lead he probably could have beat the pitch home but Delgado grounded into the shift. They say Williams was just as stubborn about not giving in to the shift.

It was a great at bat…...Walks like that are just as good as hits….

On a side note has Sele shaved yet and will Vargas be sent to the barber….

A really great ending to game that could and did go everywhere. Delgado displayed a ton of knowledge and patience with that at bat.

These guys are good! You can just tell that Willie is very, very proud of his team. FYI – does everyone know that Willie will be giving the graduation address at Fordham this weekend? His daughter is graduating and Dad will be getting an honorary doctorate.

Also, for those who miss him and care about him, Bernie Williams will be giving the graduation address at Iona and will receive and honorary doctorate in Humane Letters.